Stories such as this are usually dismissed as urban legend, but I can tell you first hand that it isn’t. I don’t think the story will accurately convey the level of embarrassment and hilarity experienced by the people present, but it is worth repeating.
Eight senior-level managers for a Fortune 500 company gather together for a meeting. Six of the managers are in a large conference room at corporate headquarters, two others are dialed in remotely via speaker-phone. The meeting is heated but productive and relatively drama-free until the leader calls it to a close. They agree to adjourn until a later time, and one of the managers reaches over and presses the disconnect button on the speaker phone.
The six managers continued talking for a few minutes, wrapping up details of items brought up in the meeting, at which time, with unexpected clarity and intensity, very distinctive porn sounds started playing over the speaker phone. There were some “oh my god right there”s, and “yeah yeah yeah”s underpinned with cheezy 80s sounding porn music– baw chicka baw baw.
The managers just stared at each other, not knowing quite what to say. Evidently, the manager who attempted to press the disconnect button didn’t disconnect the phone. Also, one of the other managers on the other end didn’t disconnect his phone either. The result was the six managers being serenaded by Shaving Ryan’s Privates or whatever porn flick the remote manager was watching in his office.
They were able to figure out who it was and the director in charge of the meeting is “dealing with it.”
The moral of the story: make sure your phone is disconnected before watching porn in your office.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Websense THIS! Yeah.